The online life and APEC

Hearing: Random music (Radio - Nova 96.9)

Anyone living in Sydney will know about the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) meeting taking place and how its making Sydney-siders and tourists suffer. There are barricades along main roads and parts of the city blocked off - even on particular days the whole forshore of Circular Quay (where the Sydney Opera House is) will be closed and even Bondi Beach!! Apparently the cost of securing Sydney for the world leadrers is $170 million. So imagine how embarassing it must be for organisers to get a security breach! The guys from ABC's The Chaser program (click to see the whole clip from their APEC breach) led a motorcade through 2 security checkpoints before being stopped a block away from the hotel G. Bush is staying at! Ive also added a link to a video clip from Australias The Age newspaper. Most of the media that night were saying how stupid it was and that the stupidity of the program and people involved overshadows that security was breached......EXCUSE ME???? I mean yeah ok it was stupid, the situation could have escilated really fast and people could have gotten hurt but it DOES NOT overshadow the fact that they got through 2 checkpoints!! They even had a guy dressed as Osama Bin Laden for heavens sake!! I could go on but i think anyone with half a brain gets the gist.

Ok so yesterday i was catching up with a friend of mine and he mentioned facebook. I am well aware of the popularity of the networking site, the media giving it even more attention, the facebook vs myspace debate and i have also recieved a few requests to join from my friends. But i have not joined. Now the signup page is open while i type this up....and im thinking about it. Now im back in Oz, there are a lot of my friends back in the sandpit that i would like to stay in touch with. And of course the thing about facebook is you cant view if you dont join. I could join and just view but knowing me eventually i'll be sucked in too...but thats not really a bad thing.

The other thing im starting to work on is my journalspace blog. I signed up ages ago but ive only ever included a link to this blog. I was thinking about moving posts there but i like blogger - its simple and fiddle free. Maybe i'll just copy posts there, or link them, dunno, i'll see how it works out. Well thats it for now, i think i'll go sign up to facebook...

VP